Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year. Thus, instead of running up a combined trade surplus of $15 billion, as expected before the oil emergency, these nations could have a trade deficit of $20 billion to $25 billion. U.S. officials, including Treasury Secretary George Shultz, believe that the current sky-high prices will exact such a toll on the world economy that "something has to give." Shultz last week urged the oil-producing nations to cooperate with the rest of the world in reducing prices and "scaling down the magnitude of the financial problem...
...ticked off some of the Russian press's misrepresentations of Gulag. "I am alleged to have written that 'Hitler's Nazis were gracious and merciful to enslaved peoples.' All lies, Pravda comrades! Point out the exact pages! Tass says that in my autobiography I admitted my hatred of the Soviet system and people. My autobiography was published by the Nobel Foundation in 1970. It is available for the whole world to see how insolently Tass lies...
...Exact Image. The campaign itself was not exactly a textbook example of democracy in action. While Geisel had a government plane and the government-controlled press at his disposal, Guimaràes was not even given radio or TV time. In the city of Campo Grande, the government-owned electric company cut off the power just when a meeting of Guimaràes' supporters was about to begin. In Niteroi, a city near Rio de Janeiro, perplexed bystanders watched a small band of demonstrators parade through the streets carrying placards calling for an end to censorship and a return...
McAdam is one of about 1,500 transexuals in the U.S. who have changed their sex by surgery. Because most sex change operations are done confidentially, the exact number is hard to determine. But the trend is clear: about 700 such operations were performed last year, double the rate of the year before...
...constant problem in extradition law," says Philip C. Jessup, a onetime member of the International Court of Justice and U.S. ambassador-at-large, "is whether the offense is a crime in both states. The exact label need not be the same, but it must be essentially the same offense. A Mohammedan country where you can have more than one wife would never extradite a man for bigamy...